On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 02:54:36PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Youngman) wrote: > ... > > Many systems now include the 'buffer' program (I have it here on an > > Ubuntu box). If you have it, try piping the data through 'buffer -z > > 4096' (or whatever PIPE_BUF is on your machine if it's not 4096). > > Hi James, > > Funny seeing a message from you, then minutes later seeing the symptom > of a bug in xargs. I was running xargs to grep through the files in an > mh-style folder and got an `Argument list too long' error. > > Here's a stand-alone example to demonstrate the problem: [...] > With the patch included below, it works: [...]
Ouch, this is a serious bug in functionality thta should be completely reliable. I will try to get a fixed 4.2.x release out promptly. I just need to make sure NEWS and ChangeLog are updated for all the other changes and change the example you gave into a test case for the findutils regression tests. Thanks for discovering and fixing the bug. Regards, James. _______________________________________________ Bug-findutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-findutils
